Klaus Schwab's puppeteers will let you "create" as long as you fuel their AI-powered control grid.

procreate* and you got me on board

Hope all goes well.🤙🏻

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"Human beings were born to create" is a nice line, but it's doing a lot of work it can't actually support. Most people's jobs have nothing to do with their passions, they're there for the paycheck. So when machines (excavators, AI, whatever) do those jobs for us, the honest framing isn't humans lose their purpose, it's humans get freed from work they never wanted to do. Nobodys nostalgic for ditch digging or being a customer service rep or a dish washer. More of us will now have time to use the brain we have that sets us so far apart from the other animals that live here. Whatever number of humans there are currently innovating can easily increase by many orders of magnitude. The real question isn't whether AI removes us "from the cage," it's what happens to people during the transition when capitalism still requires you to sell labor to survive, but the labor is gone. The real parasites among us are not immigrants or poor people. It’s the capitalist rent seekers that extract resources from us all without creating anything at all. PROOF OF WORK! That's the actual crisis: not a spiritual one about creativity, but a distributional one about who eats. If AI does the work, the output still has to get allocated somehow, and "go get a job" stops being a viable answer for huge numbers of people. So the interesting conversation right now isn't "AI frees the human spirit" (sure, maybe, eventually), it's "what replaces wages as the mechanism for distributing the goods that robots and AI produces." UBI, dividends from AI/automation profits taxed back to the public, sovereign wealth funds, negotiated equity stakes for displaced workers, pick your flavor, but pretending the Bitcoin/AI combo just naturally resolves into a renaissance without addressing that question feels like skipping the hard part. In order for us to be as you say removed from the cage, we have to be free our current system of resource allocation. You’re getting closer and closer to admitting that capitalism is actually unsustainable. You’re almost to the point of questioning the peculiar loyalty to capitalism that so many nostr users have. It’s just another one of their religions. You’re a smart and talented guy with plenty time ahead of you to accomplish things ponder your positions and especially influence others. It sucks to realize and it’s tough to admit that I was lied to and fell for it but it’s the only way to start using our talents of creativity to figure out how to break out of the cage of capitalism.

So far I have loved every single one of your keynotes Jack, looking forward to it

No veo relación con la dieta carnívora. La creatividad y el progreso tecnológico no dependen de la dieta.

True, bro..

Nice myth. Humans and their societies evolved enough to specialize and do voluntary value exchange. That is not slavery. It is liberation and massive increase in creatitivity and innovation. There never was some Garden of Eden place of plenty without effort.

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Best keynote of the whole @BTC Prague - just like in 2025 and 2024! Really glad I got to hear it live!

I was just saying this the other day as well!

It was great, even better than last year and I had tears in my eyes again. Good to see you again 🙏 thank you for always inspiring so many of us.